<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Phoolsunghi</span></p>.<p>Pandey Kapil (author) and Gautam Choubey (Translator)</p>.<p>Penguin 2020,<br />pp 192, Rs 399</p>.<p>The first ever translation of a Bhojpuri novel into English, this book promises to transport readers to a forgotten world filled with <span class="italic">mujras</span> and <span class="italic">mehfils</span>, court cases and counterfeit currency and the crashing waves of the River Saryu.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Age Of Pandemics</span></p>.<p>Chinmay Tumbe</p>.<p>HarperCollins 2020,<br />pp 268, Rs 599</p>.<p>From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, this book chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India being the epicentre in all these episodes.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns</span></p>.<p>Robert Elgood</p>.<p>Niyogi Books 2020,<br />pp 368, Rs 4,500</p>.<p>With more than 350 unique images of guns and Rajput paintings from private collections, this book offers scholars and collectors the opportunity to see the superb Jodhpur collection and to learn about Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Mahavir</span></p>.<p>Arvind Bhandari</p>.<p>Hachette 2020,<br />pp 192, Rs 399</p>.<p>Drawing on rarely accessed Jain texts, this book is an inspirational tale of the making of a spiritual master that raises age-old questions as relevant to the modern reader as they were in Mahavir’s time.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Venkatesa<br />Suprabhatam</span></p>.<p>Venkatesh<br />Parthasarathy</p>.<p>Westland 2020,<br />pp 194, Rs 399</p>.<p>Whether you have grown up listening to the Suprabhatam or are just curious about such matters, this scholarly but accessible book is a compelling<br />examination of this cultural phenomenon.</p>
<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Phoolsunghi</span></p>.<p>Pandey Kapil (author) and Gautam Choubey (Translator)</p>.<p>Penguin 2020,<br />pp 192, Rs 399</p>.<p>The first ever translation of a Bhojpuri novel into English, this book promises to transport readers to a forgotten world filled with <span class="italic">mujras</span> and <span class="italic">mehfils</span>, court cases and counterfeit currency and the crashing waves of the River Saryu.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Age Of Pandemics</span></p>.<p>Chinmay Tumbe</p>.<p>HarperCollins 2020,<br />pp 268, Rs 599</p>.<p>From lockdowns to lockups, viruses to vaccination, this book chronicles the many facets of the cholera, plague and influenza pandemics, which claimed over 70 million lives between 1817 and 1920, with India being the epicentre in all these episodes.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">The Maharaja of Jodhpur’s Guns</span></p>.<p>Robert Elgood</p>.<p>Niyogi Books 2020,<br />pp 368, Rs 4,500</p>.<p>With more than 350 unique images of guns and Rajput paintings from private collections, this book offers scholars and collectors the opportunity to see the superb Jodhpur collection and to learn about Rajput traditions relating to hunting and war.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Mahavir</span></p>.<p>Arvind Bhandari</p>.<p>Hachette 2020,<br />pp 192, Rs 399</p>.<p>Drawing on rarely accessed Jain texts, this book is an inspirational tale of the making of a spiritual master that raises age-old questions as relevant to the modern reader as they were in Mahavir’s time.</p>.<p class="ListingGrey"><span class="bold">Venkatesa<br />Suprabhatam</span></p>.<p>Venkatesh<br />Parthasarathy</p>.<p>Westland 2020,<br />pp 194, Rs 399</p>.<p>Whether you have grown up listening to the Suprabhatam or are just curious about such matters, this scholarly but accessible book is a compelling<br />examination of this cultural phenomenon.</p>
